An outbreak of enterovirus 71 in a nursery

Scandinavian Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 42, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 609-612

  Huang, Fang Liang ^a,b,c   Chen, Chao Huei ^a   Huang, Shui King ^d   Chen, Po Yen ^a  

^a TAICHUNG VETERANS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CHUNG HSING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c HUNGKUANG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^d NAN KAI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BATH; BODY FLUID; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIARRHEA; DISINFECTION; DROWSINESS; ENCEPHALITIS; ENTEROVIRUS 71; ENTEROVIRUS INFECTION; FEVER; HAND WASHING; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; MOUTH ULCER; MYOCLONUS; NEWBORN; NEWBORN CARE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; NURSERY; PERSONAL HYGIENE; RASH; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; VIRUS GENE; VIRUS ISOLATION; CASE REPORT; CROSS INFECTION; DNA SEQUENCE; ENTEROVIRUS; ENTEROVIRUS INFECTIONS; EPIDEMIC; GENETICS; INFECTION CONTROL; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; PATHOLOGY; PROCEDURES; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; VIROLOGY;

CROSS INFECTION; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; ENTEROVIRUS A, HUMAN; ENTEROVIRUS INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFECTION CONTROL; MALE; NURSERIES; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, VIRAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

VIRUS RNA;

EID: 77954792589     PISSN: 00365548     EISSN: 16511980     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/00365541003754444     Document Type: Article

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